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Wendy's Re-Enters Japan's Fast-Food Market
Originally published on Wed December 28, 2011 12:20 pm
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Wendy's is reentering the world's second largest fast food market, Japan. The burger chain left Japan in 2009 in a dispute with its local business partner. Now it's coming back in style. Our last word in business today is fancy fast food.
Instead of a basic burger, Wendy's wants to appeal to Japan's more finicky fast food eaters with a new, luxurious menu, featuring a truffle and forchini-grilled chicken sandwich and a foie gras burger, goose liver pate on top of the beef patty.
No dollar menu here. The upscale menu comes with upscale prices. The foie gras burger costs about $16. That's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
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York Ag Sponsors 56th National Meeting on Poultry Health, Processing, and Live Production
Sep 14, 2021
The Delmarva Chicken Association organizes poultry conference to share research and policies regarding poultry diseases, processing, and managing bird health and animal welfare.
(York, Pa., September 14, 2021) York Ag, a dynamic supplier of holistic ingredient solutions that optimize animal well-being, has become a gold sponsor of the 56th National Meeting on Poultry Health, Processing, and Live Production (September 27-29, 2021) organized by the Delmarva Chicken Association. Founded in 1948, the Delmarva Chicken Association is the 1,600-member trade association working for the common good of the meat chicken industry in Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Virginia's Eastern Shore.
As a member of the Delmarva Chicken Association, York Ag supports the growth of the poultry industry with its wholesome portfolio of holistic ingredients. This poultry conference gathers veterinarians, processing facility managers, quality assurance managers and supervisors, grow-out managers, live production managers, flock supervisors, growers, pharmaceutical representatives, allied businesses, government regulators and officials, research faculty, university extension and others involved in the poultry industry.
From York Calcium Chips®, Hilyses®, IMW50®, and Aragonite-C, to Phytozen®, Alterna® Poultry, Biotanix® WS, Synbiotec® Poultry, Stalosan® F and Peckstone™, York Ag offers a wide variety of additives, amendments, and enrichment tools for layers, pullets, broilers, and ABF/NAE broilers, and turkeys. “York Ag started more than 30 years ago focused on helping the egg industry build a superior eggshell. Today, our current portfolio includes solutions that help the poultry industry in all stages of the egg and poultry production cycle”, said Bill Achor, President and CEO of York Ag.
Expecting more than 400 attendees from across the United States, the Delmarva Chicken Association prides itself in gathering experts in poultry diseases, processing, bird health management, and animal welfare. “At York Ag, we believe Everyone Deserves a Nutritious Meal, and this poultry conference is the ideal venue to share the latest updates in health and animal well-being”, said Achor.
To learn more about York Ag and its ingredient solutions for egg, chicken, and turkey applications, visit www.yorkag.com/poultry
About York Ag
York Ag is a dynamic supplier of holistic ingredient solutions that optimize animal well-being. Headquartered in York, Pennsylvania, York Ag commercializes its proprietary products YORK CALCIUM CHIPS®, BOVAZYME®, and BOVAZYME® Organic, and carries a wholesome portfolio of national and international brands from diverse feed ingredient manufacturers.

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text: Apple has announced that its Mac App Store has topped the 100 million downloads mark less than a year after launching. That pales next to the company’s iOS App Store though, which is now past the 18 billion mark, and is generating more than one billion downloads a month on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Apple also says that there are now more than 500,000 apps available in the iOS App Store. But how hard is it to reach the top of the charts in that store if you’re releasing a free app, as many music companies are? Analytics firm Distimo has published some research, claiming that in the US, 80,000 average daily downloads are required to become a top 10 free iOS app, although that falls to 18,000 in the UK, 12,000 in Germany and 10,000 in France.


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BUSINESS is booming at a Saltney superstore, nearly six months on from opening its doors.
Go Outdoors, on River Lane, is well on course to beat predicted footfall figures for the first six months of trading by more than 20%.
And trading at the outdoor retailer is expected to grow even stronger in the coming months and years, following the recent go-ahead by Flintshire planners to approve plans for a new retail park at the site.
Flintshire County Council gave the thumbs- up for the building of five new retail outlets with provision for more than 400 parking places.
Mark Brown, manager of the 40,000 sq ft store, said: “The plans are great news for Go Outdoors. We hope we are playing our part as a catalyst for rejuvenating this important area.
“We knew about the mixed history of the site over recent years before we opened.
“But we believed in the area and the people and invested on that basis. Our early trading success is proof that Chester and North Wales deserves great retail experiences.
“Many UK retailers are reporting mixed results because of the massive impact of the Olympics.
“All I know is that, here at Go Outdoors, our trading has continued to be steady. And we must thank everyone in Chester and North Wales who has supported us so far as a new retailer in the city.”
The £1.5m Go Outdoors store generated more than 40 new jobs when it opened and offers more than 20,000 product lines.
The centrepiece family-friendly six-metre high indoor climbing wall allows customers to experience indoor rock climbing, before putting new footwear to the test on a range of different walking surfaces.
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I've been busy working on the launch of IBM's Smarter Planet mega-strategy, which seeks to help the world build the next generation of intelligent infrastructure for everything from transportation and energy grids to supply chains and complex systems such as healthcare.
To that end I've set up A Smart Planet on Tumblr (which I like as a more spontaneous and multimedia approach to blogging) and just wanted to share a couple of examples of how this smarter planet meme, which intersects with fronts such as wireless sensor systems, ubiquitous and wearable computing, as well as the promise of marrying this new "Web Wide World" to powerful supercomputing, presumably delivered via cloud-based services.
I just added to examples of how the "Internet of Things" -- trillions of devices, sensors and smart objects -- relates to healthcare innovation.
For example, Bodymedia has developed different wearable products to help people manage their weight and overall health. Similarly, Intel just announced a laptop-style device for connecting patients and caregivers electronically.
Of course, these are only representative of the deeper meaning of how Smarter Planet can address healthcare challenges with new computing and innovation models across many different fronts, such as using social networks for biosurvelliance, or mobile phones for natural disaster alerting and response.
In fact,it's pretty clear that the future of healthcare is deeply connected to a blend of technological and intellectual innovation, and I will try to rededicate and refocus Healthnex to reflect this direction.
Towit, I'll leave you with this clip on Wireless Sensor Networks: Opportunities in Healthcare, by Kris Pister, found of "smart dust" startup Dust Networks.


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Don’t underestimate the power of social media. That’s the message Blo, a chain of blow dry bars that started in Vancouver in 2007 and now has 34 locations ranging across Canada, the United States, Asia and Russia, would like to get across to businesses.
The company says it grew its franchises across continents without spending a single dollar on traditional advertising, at least partially, because of the power of social media.
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“Our model revolves around the viral-ness of social media, as well as PR and guerrilla marketing,” Hilary Chan-Kent, Blo’s chief brand officer, said. “We’re a very word-of-mouth business, so social media fits perfectly with our model.”
Blo uses most of the big networks — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest — to share photos, highlight promotions, and interact directly with its clients. It also shares “third-party” content, from style and hair trends to gifting ideas. It’s all done with a “cheeky voice,” to ensure Blo doesn’t come across as a self-promoting corporate drone, Ms. Chan-Kent said. The company’s catchy slogans also lend themselves to a world confined to 140-character Tweets. For instance: “No cuts, no color: Just WASH BLOW GO.”


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EOH recognised as largest SAP partner
INDUSTRY| Aug. 29, 2012, 11:08 a.m.
Listed technology group EOH has once again been recognised by software giant SAP as one of its leading partners with exceptional performance across all areas. The software giant announced the recipients of the 2012 SAP Partner Awards for Africa at an awards ceremony recently and EOH scooped up three of the top ten awards.
SAP Partner Awards are presented annually to the top performing SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP, delivering exceptional performance across diverse industries and solutions to customers. The criteria for the SAP Partner Awards assessed partners’ year-on-year revenue growth, the number of net new customers, number of customers sold to as well as customer references and customer enablement.
EOH general manager Kirtan Sita says the SAP Partner and Quality Awards are aimed at recognising partners who have achieved excellence in planning and executing their SAP projects and programs; delivering significant benefits to their organisations.
“EOH took top honours in the SAP Partner of the Year category. In the ten key categories, EOH was nominated six times and we won three of the top awards.”
The SAP Quality Awards celebrate partners in Africa that use SAP’s quality principles in key focus areas which includes effectively manage software implementations marked by complex technical and business process requirements; making the extraordinary look ordinary, excelling in execution and delivering significant benefits and achieving fast, low-cost implementations to meet today’s demands for fast time to value.
SAP Africa’s managing director Pfungwa Serima says the SAP Partner Awards in Africa acknowledges and salutes the successes of business partners that work with SAP to deliver exceptional customer service, great partner value and continue to embrace SAP’s new technology strategies.
EOH’s awards include ‘Best SAP Large Enterprises System Integrator of the Year’, recognising EOH as the biggest and best in class. Furthermore, the ‘SAP MD's Special Award’ demonstrates EOH’s excellence in the industry, this in support of its service excellence in helping customers realise best value from their investment in SAP. EOH SAP Services sales executive Mike Hartman was bestowed the highest honour of ‘Sales person of the Year’.
“There is no doubt that these awards go a long way in recognising EOH as a key industry market maker as well as our focused efforts in service excellence and thought leadership, we look forward to cementing our position in the market by focussing on our growth strategy pillars and various initiatives that we will continue to roll-out in the business of FY2013,” says Sita.
Award winners are from partner organisations that have been successful in developing great partnerships with SAP across the continent. This is evident by the fact that SAP’s partner business grew more than 206% with 55 new partners coming on board in the last year. Today, SAP has more than 11 500 partners worldwide “Helping Africa Grow” is the theme within SAP Africa this year, which underpins SAP’s ambition and focus on global and local growth beyond excellence SAP’ calls partners to embrace the new opportunities that are emerging within the SAP partner network and the market.
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Pixelmator 3.1 Marble: New tools, expanded capabilities nudge photo editing app into pro arena
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Jan. 28, 2014
Pixelmator 3.1 Marble (Mac App Store link) is the latest iteration of an image editing app that's often viewed as the hobbyist photographer's alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Much attention has been focused on Pixelmator as enthusiasts seek to escape the confines of Photoshop CC subscriptions. Recently, Apple featured Pixelmator as part of its performance demos of the new Mac Pro, so it's no accident that the company has now released a fresh update of the program roughly in tandem with Apple's new
Pixelmator 3.1 is a fine upgrade, on top of a recent major upgrade, so if you're running an earlier version of Pixelmator, it's advantageous to install the new version now. If you're running Mavericks or working on a Mac Pro, you'll get a special speed advantage, but most new features in versions 3.0 and 3.1 will benefit all users.


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Fine-Tune Brows shut down a few weeks back here on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
The salon, which opened in 2017, had grown a steady client base... one of whom left behind an RIP message outside...
Unfortunately, we can likely expect more closings like this in the weeks and months ahead. A new report issued by the Partnership for New York City finds that one-third of the city's 230,000 small businesses may never reopen post pandemic.
As the Post reported:
Most small businesses have less than three months worth of cash reserves — a period equal to the length of the state's COVID-19 shutdown.
"That means that funds to restart, pay back rent and buy inventory are exhausted, leaving tens of thousands of entrepreneurs at risk, particularly business owners of color," authors Kathryn Wylde and Natasha Avanessians wrote.
They say business owners face high rents, regulatory burdens and taxes.
In addition, the report projects that only 40 percent of Manhattan office workers will return by year's end with an estimated 75 percent expected to return full time in the future.
You can find all the grim results in the 67-page report here.


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Sorry for the three Keith Olbermann videos in a row, but I think that his commentary on the present concern over the issue is right on. The Supreme Court Judges have decided to support the "free speech" of non-persons (corporations), in that they can now spend any amount of money they choose on a campaign, candidate, or any advertising for them or any political issue.
People's complaints about those that govern is very often that they seem to be bought and sold by special interests. To date there have only been a couple-thousand political action committees (PACs). Now, corporations will have no reason to have them, and no oversight concerning how much money is spent promoting their 'special' political interests.
Here is the website that Rep. Alan Grayson mentions:
"When Corporations Rule the World"
David C. Korten (1995).


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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE) – The Original BARK Company (“BARK”), a leading global omni-channel brand for dogs, announced today that the company will be opening fireside chats on Tuesday the 14th at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Chief Executive Officer Manish Joneja and Chief Financial Officer John Toth will attend the fireplace chat.
The audio portion of the presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed at Investors.bark.co. An online archive is available for 90 days after the presentation.
BARK is the world’s most dog-centric company dedicated to making dogs happy with the best products, services and content. BARK’s dog-obsessed team applies their unique, data-driven understanding of what makes every dog special to create playstyle-specific toys, incredibly satisfying treats, and wellness supplements and canine experiences that promote the health and happiness of dogs everywhere. Founded in 2012, BARK serves dogs across the country with monthly subscription services, BarkBox and Super Chewer; a curated e-commerce experience on BARKShop.com; custom collections through its retail partner network, including Target and Amazon; Wellness products that meet the needs of your dogs with BARK Bright; and a personalized dog food delivery service, BARK Eats. At BARK, we want to be the people our dogs think they are and we promise to be their voice until every dog reaches their full tail-tail potential. Browse bark.co for more information.


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What is ‘Hamilton’ writer, actor, director and producer Lin-Manuel Miranda up to these days?
The Emmy Award-winner is a prolific creator but has taken some time away from the world of musicals to focus on other passions this year.
The award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, gave a talk at the fifth annual L’Attitude conference in downtown San Diego this week. He offered writing and creative advice to the audience and compared composing music to the process behind starting a small business.
Of course, Miranda’s composition credentials are unquestionable, but what exactly does he know about entrepreneurship?
Last year the 42-year-old and a group of friends took over the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan, an iconic store selling all things theater. Rent increases had threatened to put the independent store out of business but Miranda wanted to resurrect the fortunes of the building where he had written, found inspiration and met friends.
“It’s about collaboration. You cannot make theater alone, you cannot have a small business survive alone,” Miranda said. “We really rely on our community to keep us alive. And that’s been a lesson that I sort of take forward into the world of small business.”
What next for Lin-Manuel Miranda?
Miranda is best known for his theatrical and film-making exploits, most notably the movies In the Heights and Tick, Tick… Boom!, and the Broadway sensation Hamilton.
He has continued his prolific work rate this year and is heavily involved in the upcoming live-action version of The Little Mermaid. Disney’s reimagining of the classic is due to be released in 2023 and Miranda agreed in 2016 to be a songwriter alongside Alan Menken. It has since been announced that Miranda will also co-produce the film with Marc Platt and Rob Marshall.
If you can’t wait until next year for his next piece of work, make sure you catch the upcoming parody biography Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The film is set to be released on The Roku Channel from November charts a fictionalised account of Weird Al Yankovic’s journey to the top of the charts, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda in an as-yet unspecified role.
But perhaps his most important role to date came in response to Hurricane Fiona and the damage caused to Puerto Rico. Miranda is of Puerto Rican heritage and has frequently called for greater federal support for the nation.
“For many Puerto Ricans, there is an understandable fear of ‘here we go again,’” Miranda said in a Washington Post op-ed, referencing the experience of Hurricane Maria in 2017 which brought “unprecedented devastation” and caused close to 3,000 deaths.


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Marks & Spencer is to launch its own shop-based bank, according to reports.
Industry organ Retail Week has reported that the first branch will open in July in M&S’s flagship Marble Arch store.
It also said M&S had another 20 are planned.
The retailer’s financial services brand, M&S Money, currently has over three million customers and is a major credit card provider.
Retail Week said the new bank’s products would include mortgages.
M&S would not comment on the story at the time of going to press.


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Bottom line: A New York IPO by drug maker MediTech and Hong Kong listing by BOC Aviation will both meet with tepid reception and weak debuts, the former due to its small size and latter due to lack of big growth potential.
A couple of IPOs are in the headlines as we head into the new week, led by a relatively sizable listing plan by drug maker China MediTech that could be the first significant new offering in New York this year by a Chinese firm. Meantime, Bank of China (HKEx: 3988; Shanghai: 601398) is also announcing plans to spin off and list its airline leasing unit, marking its latest asset sale as China’s banks scramble to raise cash to cushion their rapidly crumbling balance sheets.
Each of these listing stories is a bit different, reflecting the big differences between MediTech, a private company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, and Bank of China, one of China’s big 4 state-run banks. MediTech’s choice of New York over Hong Kong probably reflects Li Ka-shing’s recent bearish stance on China, and also highlights the relative stability that New York offers over Hong Kong and China. Bank of China’s choice of Hong Kong reflects the preference by big state-run companies to make overseas listings in the former British colony, and Bank of China is itself also listed there.
Let’s begin with MediTech, which said it plans to raise up to $100 million in its New York offering. (company announcement) The company’s ordinary shares currently trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market for small cap companies, and the New York shares will trade as American Depositary Shares (ADSs).
MediTech said it will make its offering on the Nasdaq, and its shares will trade under the symbol HCM, which indicates the offering plan is relatively advanced. It adds that a registration statement has been filed with the US securities regulator, but that it hasn’t become effective yet.
This particular offering comes as a much larger wave of US-listed Chinese companies are abandoning their New York listings through privatizations, and returning home to re-list. One of the latest to do so was Mindray Medical, a medical device maker that comes from a similar field to MediTech’s.
Tepid Debut on Tap
I’ve previously said that smaller companies like MediTech may not be well suited to New York listings, and that only Chinese industry leaders like Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) should consider offerings so far away from home. Accordingly, I wouldn’t expect this particular offering to get a very strong reception and expect it will probably price in the bottom half of its range and make a lackluster debut.
Meantime, Bank of China has just announced its plans to spin off and separately list BOC Aviation, but it hasn’t said much else. (company announcement) It said the unit’s shares would be listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. I haven’t seen any financials for the company, though other recent similar transactions suggest the company could be valued in the $3-$5 billion range. If that’s the case, we can probably expect an IPO of around $500 million.
This particular sale comes just weeks after Bank of China’s Hong Kong affiliate announced it was selling its Hong Kong-based Nanyang Commercial Bank to bad asset manager Cinda (HKEx: 1359) for HK$68 billion ($8.7 billion). The 2 cash raising exercises also come as most of China’s big banks scramble to raise billions of dollars, mostly through new note and share issues, to bolster their balance sheets as a bad debt crisis looms.
This particular offering doesn’t look particularly attractive, as it’s not in a very fast growing sector and is probably being rushed due to Bank of China’s desire to quickly raise cash through the sale of non-core assets. Accordingly, I would expect the share sale, like MediTech’s, to price in the bottom half of its range and also post a tepid debut when its shares start trading.
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Foolproof raises over £60k for Cancer Research UK with Hyundai contactless car
Foolproof partnered with Hyundai and Cancer Research UK to build the world's first car enabled for contactless payments, raising over £60,000 for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.
In an increasingly cashless society, traditional payments are under threat. In this digital era, we are also seeing a new generation of donators who expect engaging, informative and frictionless experiences in exchange for their support and hard-earned cash. Foolproof embarked on a journey to understand how contactless payments can connect to a physical experience to innovate the act of giving.
Objectives & Aims
Foolproof set out to develop a solution that inspired charity donations and raised awareness of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign while embracing the latest technologies. Working with Hyundai, the London-based UX design agency designed the world’s first car enabled for contactless payment. At the heart of this project was Cancer Research UK’s desire to push the boundaries of fundraising and Hyundai’s passion for innovation.
Proving the need for innovation around contactless donations, YouGov’s 2017 Charitable Giving report found that 30% of Britons would be more likely to donate to charity if they could do so by using contactless technology. In fact, the report found that millennials are most likely to consider charitable contactless donation with 52% of 18 to 34 year olds saying this would make them more likely to donate.
Implementation, Execution & Tactics
Hyundai’s zero-emission IONIQ car not only drives donations through its five contactless payment points, but it also allows for a physical, shareable experience. This was a key part of the strategy and a great way to spread the word about the campaign. The vehicle’s interior was fitted with a photo booth so donators could take a selfie and share it on social media.
Being a world first, it was important to stand out in the right places in order to make an impact in PR and increase donations. The car made an appearance at several high-profile events and Hyundai dealerships across the UK between June and October 2017.
It was equally important that the car harnessed the latest technological innovations to attract attention. This included integrating Ardunio micro-controllers and Raspberry Pi micro-computers to ensure that the car reacted immediately to each interaction. It also meant connecting the contactless readers to two LED totalisers to tally up donations. Importantly, the modified car was fully road legal, and able to travel by road to each venue.
Since its launch in May 2017, the contactless car has helped Stand Up To Cancer raise £61,941.
Susannah Jacques, Brand Experience Manager at Hyundai commented that, "It was a really positive experience working with the Foolproof team. We came to them with a really challenging brief; a world-first is always a big challenge. The ideas from Foolproof were big and bold; it was a really good response to the brief.”
President and CEO of Hyundai UK Tony Whitehorn added: “We are extremely proud to be supporting Cancer Research UK this year as an official partner of Stand Up To Cancer, and we’re helping in the way that we know best - with innovation.”


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American Queen Steamboat Company has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Victory I and Victory II cruise ships from Sunstone Ships, Inc., as well as the Victory Cruise Lines brand. These vessels are currently being marketed by Victory Cruise Lines as overnight cruise ships. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed, and the deal is expected to close in early January 2019.
In a written statement American Queen Steamboat Company Chairman and CEO John Waggoner said the company would work closely with both Victory Cruise Line's new and existing travel partners, and that the new vessels will enable the company to provide guests with more cruise options, particularly in the Great Lakes -- a region that Waggoner said customers had been requesting for years.
The 5,000-ton, 300-foot-long, 202-passenger Victory I and Victory II are both identical, and details of upcoming operations on both of vessels will be announced in the coming months, American Queen Steamboat Company said.
The Victory I and Victory II will join the American Queen Steamboat Company fleet under the Victory Cruise name, alongside the flagship American Queen and 166-guest boutique paddlewheeler American Duchess sailing the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and American Empress in the Pacific Northwest. The new American Countess, currently under construction in Louisiana, will debut in 2020.


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Twitter lets users hide replies
For those that might not be super Twitter-savvy hiding, replies are the same as deleting a comment under your Facebook or Instagram posts. The feature will be great for those that want to monitor what friends comment on their post, though for businesses this could be a game-changer.
The feature was recently tested in Canada and is soon to be available in the states. Now when users what to prevent others from seeing replies from other people users can simply hit hide replies at the top right of the tweet. Though it’s important to note that when a reply is hidden the author will be notified.
Twitter has made changes to its platform recently to prevent bullying and discrimination, and this seems to be another step in that direction. Additionally, those brands trying to convey a message on Twitter can monitor the comments that are left below a post and decide on which belong and which are demeaning to their brand.
Though replies can also be brought back from the shadows, in a similar fashion to how the comment is hidden. Simply tap the reply that was hidden and click unhide reply. Additionally, users will not be able to see tweets that mention other users from their profile. Though through the general search features tweets that mention other individuals can still be found. With this change, Twitter has also given users the ability to mute keywords.
“With this test, we want to understand how conversations on Twitter change if the person who starts a conversation can hide replies,” Twitter explained in a blog post.
Twitter went on to add –
- Most users so far have hidden replies when they find the posts – irrelevant, abusive or unintelligible
- 27% of users noted that they were likely to reconsider posts in the future after they had replies that were hidden
- To prevent confusion and frustration Twitter will also check in with users to see if they would like to block the account that sent the reply.
This is a great opportunity for both users who want to curb who has a say on their account, and brands that want to interact with customers without that impact being lessened by persistent negativity.


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Reebok wasn’t good enough for Queen Bey.
Reportedly the R&B singer passed on a deal with the sports brand because they weren’t diverse enough says ESPN writer Nick DePaula.
“She kind of took a step back and said, ‘Is this the team that would be working on my product?'” DePaula says. “And she said, “Nobody in this room reflects my background, not my skin color, and where I’m from and what I want to do,'” he continued. “And so she kind of took a step back and then she left, and it did not come to terms.”
Watch the segment below.
This is about Beyoncé so you should watch it but also @NickDePaula tells a really interesting story of why Beyoncé walked out of her meeting with the Reebok people and ended up signing with the adidas side of the brand instead.
Representation, baby. pic.twitter.com/hE6R3Z4pm9
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 5, 2019
So what did Bey do? She signed with Adidas instead.
Beyonce released a statement saying, “This is the partnership of a lifetime for me. Adidas has had tremendous success in pushing creative boundaries. We share a philosophy that puts creativity, growth and social responsibility at the forefront of business. I look forward to re-launching and expanding Ivy Park on a truly global scale with a proven, dynamic leader.”
Some Twitter users pointed out that Reebok and Adidas are owned by the same company.
This is a boss move by the Queen. What I don't understand is @reebok is a subsidiary of @adidas… So if Reebok doesn't represent Bé's values, wouldn't that mean that Adidas kinda doesn't too? This is an actual question and I'm certaintly not an expert.
— King Chilly (@Gooberstatus) April 5, 2019
Re-read the original tweet please
“Signed with the adidas side of the brand instead”
yes adidas owns Reebok, hence phrasing it that way – but also Nike owns converse and just like adidas/Reebok, they operate completely separately. That’s often how it works.
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 6, 2019
Others praised the singer for standing up for black representation.
— b (@bjaderey) April 6, 2019
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Some companies need to take note…I know the word diversity gets thrown around a lot/buzzword, but there is merit in it people diversity of thought/ideas/perspective it can raise the bar in more ways than one. Malo Beyonce https://t.co/ZMwOoQh8UN
— Moana Leilua🇼🇸🇳🇿 (@Moanaleilua) April 6, 2019


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INTERNET DATA CENTRES
New AI system to extract data from the internet more effectively
However, extracting data from plain text and organising it for quantitative analysis may be time consuming.
Microsoft to power its data centre with wind energy
Microsoft said it entered into agreements with two wind farms to power its Cheyenne datac...
Oracle likely to set up data centre in India: CEO Mark Hurd
'The dynamics that excite us about any market is the scale of the market size. Ye...
DataWind to launch low-cost 4G handset with free internet browsing for a year
The company already offers smartphones starting from Rs 1,500.
Vodafone India looks to sell Rs 1,200-Crore Navi Mumbai data centre
It was part of the company’s strategic plan to get enterprise customers, especially the booming medium segment and startups, the first person said.
Rocket Internet narrows losses at main startups
Rocket said aggregate revenue of selected companies grew by 31% to 1.58 billion euros ($1.68 billion) in the first nine months of the year, a slight slowdown from a growth rate of 32 percent in the first half.
Nepal Telecom, China Telecom Global sign internet service deal
With this agreement, access to internet service through the route of China has been possible. As of now, Nepal has access to internet service only through Indian route
Google to set up data centres in India; chases Microsoft, Amazon over the cloud
Google also unveiled the G Suite which was previously called Google Apps for Work and encompasses enterprise apps such Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more.
Demonetisation hits auto sales in Nov: SIAM data
As per data released by industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), commercial vehicles declined by 11.6% to 45773 units. Sales of three-wheelers too fell by 25.9% to 33662 units.
Internet freedom on the decline in India: Report
The Supreme Court also upheld laws criminalising defamation which apply to both online and offline speech.
Demonetisation hits auto sales in November: SIAM data
The impact of the demonetisation exercise was more pronounced in the commercial vehicles, three-wheelers and two-wheelers segments.
New material may lead to internet data speed of 2GB/s
Researchers from KAUST in Saudi Arabia developed the new nanocrystalline material that rapidly makes white light out of blue light.
Oracle to buy internet infrastructure provider Dyn
Dyn, whose customers include Netflix Inc, Twitter Inc and Pfizer Inc, was crippled by high-profile cyber attacks last month that disrupted some of its clients' websites.
India's millennials to lead in internet spending growth
The avenue for online transaction growth is phenomenal, averaging 60 per cent based on compound aggregate growth rate during 2014 and 2020.
Rajan Anandan decodes internet habits of Indians
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As businesses shift their systems to the cloud there is inevitably an increase in complexity that makes maintaining security more of a challenge.
Security policy management specialist AlgoSec is launching a new version of its Security Management Solution to enable policy management across clouds and software-define networks.
Google now has its own hardware security keys -- the Titan Security Key. These FIDO-compatible keys include Google firmware that verifies the integrity of security keys at the hardware level. The Titan Security Key offers secure hardware-based two-factor authentication, and is available to Google Cloud customers.
The keys are similar to those offered by Yubico -- so similar, in fact, that the company has gone out of its way to stress that it is not manufacturing the devices for Google.
Microsoft reported its Q4 earnings for the year, and the company posted extremely strong results helped in large parts by the performance of its cloud services and Surface business. The company far-exceeded analysts' predictions for this quarter, with revenue of $30.1 billion, net income of $8.8 billion and earnings per share of $1.14.
Microsoft's continued move to the cloud is paying off. Revenue in Intelligent Cloud increased by 23 percent to $9.6 billion, while Azure revenue growth rocketed by 89 percent, and Surface revenue went up by 25 percent as talk turns to the possibility of a Surface Phone.
SaaS management platform BetterCloud is launching a new activity-based alerts solution for Google to strengthen security for G Suite applications.
The solution enables organizations to continuously monitor event-related activity for malicious or unauthorized behavior, and automates security responses to rapidly address security risks.
Microsoft has announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with retail giant Walmart to help "make shopping faster and easier for millions of customers around the world".
The five-year deal between the two companies will see Walmart making use of Microsoft's cloud technology solutions such as Microsoft 365 and Azure. The retailer already uses some Microsoft services, but with the new partnership this expands into cloud tools that use machine learning and artificial intelligence.
A new report finds that 86 percent of businesses describe their cloud strategy as multi-cloud today, with performance and innovation rising above cost savings as the top measures of success.
In addition the report, produced by Forrester for enterprise cloud specialist Virtustream, reveals that 60 percent of enterprises are now moving or have already moved mission-critical applications to the public cloud.
There's a new version of Ubuntu on the block -- Minimal Ubuntu. It's been stripped right back to the bone to leave a tiny footprint, and these back Linux distros should boot 40 percent faster than a standard Ubuntu server image. Despite the reduced footprint size, Minimal Ubuntu retains all of Ubuntu's standard tools (such as ssh, apt and snapd) and maintain full compatibility.
Designed for cloud developers and ops, Canonical says that the release is intended for completely automated operations, and as such much of the user-friendliness has been stripped out, but it's still ideal for used in KVM, Google Computer Engine and AWS.
Timehop -- the social network for those who like to reminisce -- has revealed that it fell victim to a security breach on Independence Day. The attacker managed to access an internal database stole the personal data of 21 million users from Timehop's Cloud Computing Environment.
The vast majority of those affected by the "security incident" (as Timehop refers to it) had their names and usernames exposed, but for nearly a quarter of them -- 4.7 million -- phone numbers were also exposed. The hacker also took access tokens which could be used to view users' posts.
Public cloud services can be affordable for many enterprise applications. But achieving the same service levels that the enterprise data center delivers for high availability and high performance for mission-critical applications can be quite costly. The reason is: high availability and high performance, especially for database applications, both consume more resources and that costs more money -- sometimes considerably more.
Is there a way to make public cloud services equally, if not more, cost-effective than a high availability, high performance private cloud? Yes, but that requires carefully managing how the public cloud services are utilized by each application.
Google has announced a new storage option for developers using Google Cloud Platform. The new Cloud Filestore is due to launch in beta next month, and it provides a managed NAS in the cloud.
Google describes Cloud Filestore as a "managed file storage for applications that require a file system interface and a shared file system", and the aim is to offer higher performance to users that need it than the existing options do.
Traditional Hadoop-style big data is giving way to cloud and container solutions like Docker, according to the results of a new survey.
The State of Data Science survey, carried out by Python data science platform Anaconda, among over 4,000 of its users, shows that Docker now makes up 19 percent of data science platforms, beating Hadoop/Spark with 15 percent and Kubernetes at 5.8 percent.
According to a new report, 74 percent of respondents believe DevOps enablement capabilities are essential, very important, or important for their organization. Yet only 33 percent believe their organization has the ability to deliver those capabilities.
This is according to research carried out by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by digital business specialist Embotics, which analyzed the results of a survey of more than 600 individuals responsible for cloud management at organizations with an average budget of $147 million for managing hybrid cloud operations.
New research commissioned by cloud-native analytics platform Sumo Logic from 451 Research, reveals that the degree to which non-IT roles and functions are using machine data analytics for business value is growing faster than anticipated.
The findings show the more software-centric a company is, the more likely it is to have 100+ people who use machine data analytics at least once a week, indicating that these companies are recognizing the value of machine data analytics.
A new study shows that 87 percent of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) limit their use of the cloud because of the complexity of managing regulatory compliance.
According to the research by WinMagic, which spoke to ITDMs in Germany, India, the UK and US, 24 percent say this means they only work with a single cloud vendor in their infrastructure, rather than exploit the benefits of a multi-cloud environment.
As more systems move to the cloud, companies often struggle with factors like costs and incident response due to a lack of visibility.
Operations management platform OpsRamp is launching an update to its SaaS platform that delivers greater visibility for multi-cloud environments and features a new Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) inference engine for more powerful alerting and event correlation.


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Dr. Stephen Oh to Serve as Vice President of Platform Business Development
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Oct 14, 2008 -- Denali Software, Inc., today announced that Dr. Stephen Oh has joined the company as vice president of Platform Business Development. With over 19 years of experience in high- growth, high-technology companies, Dr. Oh was most recently CEO of Solex Semiconductor and held executive and management positions at Samsung Semiconductor, Agere Systems, National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. During his tenure as head of its multimedia lab within the SoC R&D center and vice president of the application processor development team, Samsung Semiconductor achieved a major share in the navigation and portable music player markets. At Denali, he is directly responsible for Denali's platform technologies, including FlashPoint, and developing long-term relationships with Denali's memory and storage partners.
"It's a great win for Denali to have someone of Stephen's caliber join our leadership team. He brings a valuable combination of experience, credentials and understanding of Denali's next-generation NAND-based applications solutions," said Denali Software's president and CEO Sanjay Srivastava. "Stephen's demonstrated business and technical leadership will be invaluable as we continue to grow our fully integrated, NAND-based platform solutions."
"Denali has an excellent reputation for its investment in its customers, its people and its technology," states Dr. Stephen Oh. "Together, we will expand Denali's leadership position into the consumer market place with state- of-the-art flash cache and SSD products, solutions and services."
Dr. Oh is a graduate of Purdue University where he received three degrees, a Ph.D., Masters and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering.
About Denali Software
Denali Software, Inc. is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, NAND Flash and DDR DRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP and services to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at www.denali.com.


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By Business Bug
Card the winner
What business sector offers the best potential for growth in Sri Lanka? If you thought it was cellular phones or computers, you are wrong. Recent market surveys show it is the credit card industry, which is why there are so many 'card promotions' on offer these days. That is because everyone expects industrialists- even in the medium scale range- to turn to e-commerce with the dawn of the new millennium. And, given Sri Lanka's high level education, they expect e-commerce penetration to be very high; hence the aggressive marketing of plastic money these days...
Week before last, we related how the greens briefed envoys in Colombo about allegedly corrupt privatization deals and vowed to cancel those sales. This has scared another private investor from a neighbouring land who bought over a state run dairy in the recent past. There were many discreet queries from the greens as to whether their deal too would be probed but the answer was in the negative, we hear...
Only the best
A well-established multinational which for long indulged in the practice of producing several rival brands of the same consumable- say, soap for example- is set to rethink company policy. The reason is that goods from other manufacturers are gaining ground in what is a very competitive market because the multinational's products are fighting each other. The company may not halt the production of rival brands of the same product but at least active promotion will be limited to the brand which the company feels will make the most impact.
Associated Ceat (Pvt) Ltd. (ACPL) has enlisted the help of Ceat India to export tyres produced in Sri Lanka.
In line with this ACPL will make investments of a further Rs. 150 million this, year to achieve the quality and the quantity needed to meet export demand.
The expansion will increase the production capacity of their Kelani factory from 12 tons a day to 20 tons to 25 tons a day by March 2000 and by 40 tons by September.
"This will increase the total production from 28 tons to 56 tons a day. The growth in exports then will be from two tons to 23 tons a day. This would correspond to about a US$ 1 mn a month, as compared to US$ 70,000 at present," ACPL Managing Director, Abhik Mitra told The Sunday Times Business.
He said that Ceat India will either develop new markets and distributors or give some of their volume. "That is the reason why we are now aggressively positioning ourselves for that level of growth. However it takes time for businesses to grow, so hopefully with the support of Ceat India, we will shortcut this process significantly."
Mr. Mitra said Ceat India was also helping ACPL with technology transfers, logistics and marketing. "Kelani tyre is today being made with Ceat technology," Mr. Mitra said.
Technology used in the production process at the Kelani factory was changed in the last six months in order to create a unified specification between the Sri Lankan and Indian factories to achieve consistent quality. ACPL officials said the company would start making tubes towards the end of this year, motor cycle tyres early next year and steel radial tyres in two years.
At present the company is exporting tyres to South America, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mauritius and Nepal. With the help of Ceat India they are looking at the USA and Vietnam as their next market.
The Supreme Court last week granted Asia Siyaka Commodities (Pvt) Ltd., permission to proceed with their appeal, following The Court of Appeal's order made last year issuing a writ of certiorari quashing the licence issued to Asia Siyaka in 1998.
The order was made consequent to an application filed by Forbes and Walker Tea Brokers (Pvt) Limited in the Court of Appeal. Forbes and Walker made the appeal on the ground that the licence issued to Asia Siyaka Commodities for the year 1998 by the Licensing Authority was illegal and ultra vires to the Licensing of Produce Broker's Act.
Asia Siyaka in their objections filed in Court, stated that the licence issued for the year 1998 was valid and accordingly that they were entitled to trade as a Licensed Produce Broker for tea.
In his decision last year Justice Upali de Z. Gunawardana upheld the contention of Forbes and Walkers that the licence in question was illegal and invalid.
He held that such legislation was constitutionally valid.
The judgment held that under the scheme of the regulations, a licence to function as a Tea Broker could be operative and entitled the licence holder to trade only from the 1st of January of the year succeeding that in which it is applied for and issued by the Licensing Authority. However Asia Siyaka was issued a licence and hence the Licensing Authority had acted illegally in permitting Asia Siyaka to commence business during the course of 1998. Counsel for Forbes & Walker's objected to the said special leave application on the grounds that Asia Siyaka was able to obtain a fresh licence and that therefore the dispute had become academic.
MTN Networks, operators of Dialog GSM declared themselves Y2K compliant recently.
The company claims they are the first cellular operator to be Y2K compliant.
However other cellular operators also said they were Y2K compliant, but added that they did not want to make an announcement.
One cellular company in particular said that they had not only finished their Y2K equipment audit but had also completed their Y2K legal audit.
The TRC last week said that the telecom networks and terminals made extensive use of computers and electronic systems and thus dealing with the millennium bus was essential for the continued operation of networks. Officials said that it was also necessary because of network interconnection, Y2K compliance must also take care of ensuring end to end connection.
According to this the 24 telecommunication operators providing basic telephone, cellular, data communication, paging and other communications infrastructures, providing nearly one million communications connections were over 95 per cent compliant.
Officials said that programmers and network engineers of the telecommunication operators have conformed that no material risk of disruption has been identified. The TRC said that the remaining five per cent of public networks, the operators are in the process of making them Y2K compliant. The TRC expects all of this work to be completed by end of September.
The TRC further said that even though the network operators are ready with their plans and standby arrangements for the millennium transition, as nothing could ever be 100 per cent guaranteed there is no room for complacency by the TRC. Abnormalities in networks may render such arrangements inadequate and therefore TRC will continue to monitor the situation so that no room is left for any malfunction during the millennium shift, officials said.
The TRC also warned the public to refrain from making unnecessary calls on New Year eve, because traditionally the New Year was a very heavy period for phone usage and the turn of the millennium is likely to be even heavier that in previous years. However they added that the service providers had made necessary arrangements to handle heave traffic during the millennium.
Plantation stocks rekindled interest in the ailing Colombo bourse following increased prices at the tea auction. The plantation sector indices rose 17.94 per cent to register 278.7. The All Share Price Index rose .51 per cent to close at 567.3 while the Milanka Price Index declined .11 to register 926.9. Average turnover was Rs 59.4 mn while the net foreign outflows was Rs 86.98 mn. Turnover notched a high of Rs 104 mn on Wednesday when 553,000 shares of Aitken Spence were traded.
Horana Plantations gained 125 per cent while Korea Ceylon Footwear Manufacturing Company rose 50 per cent and Udapussellawa Plantations increased 39.39 per cent. Losers included Palm Garden Hotel 8.59 per cent, Lanka Milk Foods 8.33 per cent and Three Acre Farms 7.96 per cent.
"The present trend in the market will continue into the next week. There is room for tea prices to move further up with winter buying," Director Research, John Keells Stock Brokers, Nandakumar Nair, said. "Auction price increases will reflect on the market," he added.
"The market will gradually climb over the next couple of weeks driven by rising tourist arrivals and higher tea prices," Head of Research, Asia Securities, Dushyanth Wijaysingha said, "The market is poised to revive," he added.
"We expect the rise in tea prices to have an impact on sentiment towards holding companies in the plantation sector and this will improve the corporate earnings outlook," Strategist, Jardine flemming HNB Securities, Amal Sanderatne said. "With the second quarter GDP growth coming in stronger than the first quarter there is a definite indication that the worst is behind and this should increase optimism towards equities," he said.
"Activity in the plantation stocks will increase market turnover," Head of Research, CDIC Sasoon Cumberbatch, Diluk Desinghe said. "Foreign activity will be restricted to large blocks of selected blue chips," he predicted.
Picking up in leaps and bounds
By Shafraz Farook
Tea prices bounced back in the last two auctions putting to rest the worries of the producers and brokers. After a lapse of 36 weeks the Colombo auction averaged Rs. 130 per kg. The previous highest for the year of Rs. 127.30 was recorded at the second sale in January Last week's auction especially boosted morale in the industry. Officials said that it was high time that prices picked up realising the long overdue price rises predicted due to the 100 million shortfalls in the world market.
Most varieties picked up sharply including the market for low growns continued strong.
The previous two auctions too saw some buoyancy, but last week's auctions really meant that the industry was on its road to recovery.
However, the industry is still worried over the narrowing gap in prices between the below best and the bottom end of the market. The industry fears this could affect the availability of better teas in the months ahead. Price gains in the last four auctions have brought it to the extent that the distinction between these categories is often blurred, Asia Siyaka Commodity's officials said.
Elsewhere, Indian officials said last week that the Central Government may be forced to allow imports of tea in a big way if domestic production failed to meet demand. Indian tea prices started rising around three months ago when Sri Lankan prices were still dropping. It is only now we are feeling the shortfall in production.
Meanwhile it is understood that Indian authorities are indeed planning to tap the international market. Indian officials have said that Indian producers and marketers needed to work out strategies for increasing demand in India and abroad for its industry to remain profitable. It was reported in June that Tata Tea, India's largest tea company also bid for Tetley, a privately owned UK teabag maker. Only Tata and one other international company were considered serious bidders. Tata already has a small joint venture with Tetley to supply tea bags to Poland.
Officials said though India's growth in domestic consumption seemed high, growth in earnings in dollar terms had not been matched. India's domestic consumption as at end 1998 was about 664 million kilos. India however recorded a drop of over 52 million kilos in production for the first six months of this year.
However, India might not embark on this venture any time soon because of its present situation. Officials said that once the situation stabilises we could see the Indian tea industry positioning themselves once again to capture the world market.
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text: Customs & ExciseHeadlines Customs to launch new e- Customs platform for trade facilitation By maritimemag December 18, 202097 views ShareTweet 0 Segun Oladipupo | Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday, disclosed plans to roll out an Electronic-Customs platform with capacity to promote future increase in cargo throughput using technology. The e-Customs is set to commence very soon, even as the Service said that the platform would enhance and improve operational methodologies in the agency. The National Public Relations Officer of NCS, Deputy Comptroller (DC) Joseph Attah said this at a public function in Lagos on Thursday. He said this while stating the roles of the Nigeria Customs Service in the advancement of the blue economy. Attah, who was represented at the event by Uche Ejesieme, a Superintendent of Customs,added that the role of the Service in the blue economy would have to do with its initiative towards improving Customs processes and procedures. He words, “Our role in the blue economy will have to do with our initiative towards improving customs processes and procedures e.g. you will recall that our automation process began with ASYCUDA, then transited to ASYCUDA++, then we had ASYCUDA 2.7 version, then NCIS 1 and now NCIS 2. “Now, the Service is working on a more active platform/system that will be launched very soon that will have the capacity to promote future increase in cargo throughput using technology.” He added that some deliberate steps created by the service in dealing with Trade Related Disputes include; creation of the dispute resolution committee at the headquarters and at area commands. He stated that the committees were charged with the responsibilities of identifying trade disputes and addressing them expeditiously with minimal delays. According to him, there is a renewed synergy and collaboration between the Nigeria Customs Service and other critical security and regulatory agencies in seaports, airports and the borders. He maintained that the initiative has enhanced the speed with which issues are handled without the usual rancour, acrimony and which hitherto was the order of the day. The marine unit of the Service, he said has helped to confront smugglers at the waterways, making seizures and decimating their heinous activities. © 2020, maritimemag. All rights reserved.


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FLORENCE, Alabama – If you drop by Florence's only enclosed shopping mall between now and summertime, don't be alarmed by missing ceiling tiles, bright yellow caution tape or makeshift hard hat zones.
The 600,000-square-foot retail center, formerly known as Regency Square Mall, is undergoing a major facelift and name change. Despite the renovations taking place, the mall remains open to the public during normal business hours.
The decision to stay open and conduct most of the heavy construction at night to avoid inconveniencing retailers and customers was not a common one, according to Hull Storey Gibson Companies spokeswoman Kate Gary.
"Even if when you walk in and it looks like somewhat of a construction zone, we are still fully functioning and are open regular hours," she said. "Most companies don't do this. They don't do renovations with a mall that's open. Sometimes they'll shut down wings of the mall and they'll do the renovation. We're doing this at nighttime seven days a week and that is truly a rarity."
Purchased by Hull Storey Gibson Companies in 2002, the Florence Mall is undergoing its second facelift in 12 years. Some of the interior changes to the mall this year will include new carpet, improved restroom areas, painting, raised ceilings, upgraded interior lighting as well as historical photos throughout the mall corridors.
Customers will also notice new landscaping, signage and enhanced entryways outside the building. Hull Storey Gibson Companies, which is based in Augusta, Ga., is not disclosing how much it will invest in the renovations.
Anchored by Belk, JC Penney, Dillard's and Sears, Florence Mall will also welcome a new retailer this spring. Francesca's, a women's clothing, jewelry and accessories boutique, plans to open in the space where Little's Jewelers, which is in a different temporary location, formerly operated.
Founded in 1999 in Houston, Francesca's will operate in a 1,542-square-foot shop between Dillard's and Justice in the center court of the mall.
"Francesca's is one of the fastest growing specialty retailers in the United States and we are thrilled to introduce this popular clothing boutique to Florence," said John Hudson, senior vice president of leasing operations for Hull Storey Gibson Companies.
Hudson said Florence Mall, which has a strong mix of national retailers, is gaining momentum as more companies "realize the potential of this established shopping destination."
Florence Mall is located on Cox Creek Parkway, a busy Shoals corridor that has a traffic count of approximately 30,000 vehicles per day. With the addition of Francesca's this spring, the one-story facility will have 52 tenants.
The renovation announcement late last year came just a month after the decades-old mall said Starbucks, Mattress Firm and a full-service Chick-fil-A would open as freestanding outparcels outside the property.
Mattress Firm opened Nov. 1 in a new 5,000-square-foot building, while an 1,850-square-foot Starbucks and 5,000-square-foot, full-service Chick-fil-A are expected to launch early this year.
The mall renovations should be complete by this summer, Gary said.
"This is a great shopping corridor and Florence is a regional pull for not only folks in Alabama but also people in Mississippi and Tennessee," she said.
Andrea Williamson and her mother, Sharon Johnson, own Impulse, a women's apparel and accessories store at Florence Mall. Their business opened at the mall in 2008 as a children's clothing retailer, but transitioned to the name Impulse and began focusing exclusively on women's products in 2011.
Although the renovations have "probably been a little bit of an inconvenience at times," Williamson is confident that the facelift will bring new life back to the facility.
"There are certain people who typically don't come to the mall for whatever reason," she said. "I don't know if that has anything to do with décor, but I do think getting a fresh, updated look is going to bring a lot more people in who haven't been in just to see the renovation."
The official transition from the name Regency Square Mall to Florence Mall has already taken place, but customers won't see the mall signage change for a few more months. Gary said the name Florence Mall represents the city more and will hopefully have a deeper connection with the Shoals area.
Hull Storey Gibson Companies operates 21 enclosed malls, 20 shopping center and 18 freestanding buildings in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
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Last month, BrightRoll, the big video advertising services company announced the launch of a real-time bidding exchange for mobile video, the industry’s first the company said.
Citing the just-released, comprehensive study of digital advertising, titled “The Digital Media Forecast 2012 – 2017,” Forrester Research Principal Analyst Joanna O’Connell says that video advertising will be the fastest growing sector of digital advertising, increasing by 26 percent compounded yearly through 2017.
The real-time buying of mobile video advertising is quickly growing with the rise in consumption and the ermergence of exchanges and other real-time buying technologies says Seneca Mudd, Director of Industry Initiatives for the IAB, the global trade group for digital publishers.
With its acquisition of Efficient Frontier late last year, Adobe is set to enter the world of programmatic ad buying, says David Karnstedt, SVP and GM of Adobe Media and Advertising Solutions, in this interview with Beet.TV
The emergence of real-time bidding solutions for online video ad buying, which are employed by ad agencies, will replace the ways buying is done today, says Joanna O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Interactive Media at Forrester Research, in this interview with Beet.TV
EMMERYVILLE, CA — (via Skype Video) Media buyers and brands are turning to real-time bidding (RTB) more often for video, says Forrester Research in a new report on the real-time market, releasing today. Beet.TV spoke to Keith Eadie, VP of Marketing at online video ad platform TubeMogul, which commissioned the study, about the growth in this marketplace.


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The newly released Samsung Galaxy Note7’s have now been banned by The U.S. Department of Travel, due to health and safety risks, after some customers reported that their devices exploded.
The device, which was only revealed on August 2nd, had been already banned from Airlines including, Virgin Australia, AirAsia, Qantas, Singapore Air, and Jetstar.
Since finding out that the device has exploding issues with its batteries, the maker of the device, Korean brand Samsung, put out a global recall, later issuing their affected customers with replacement smartphones. However, many customers have now come forward stating that even their replacements have problems, with overheating being a main issue.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has branded the device as “forbidden hazardous material.”
Warnings were previously issued to travellers by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), strongly advising them to make sure their Note7’s were turned off throughout the duration of the flight, and not charged.
Anthony Foxx, Transportation Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation, said: We recognize that banning these phones from airlines will inconvenience some passengers, but the safety of all those aboard an aircraft must take priority.”
He continued: “We are taking this additional step because even one fire incident inflight poses a high risk of severe personal injury and puts many lives at risk.”
In an update to their latest news page, Virgin Atlantic said: “As a result of the emergency order issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Virgin Atlantic advises all customers who own or possess a Samsung Galaxy Note7 device that they will not be able to travel with it on any Virgin Atlantic flights - whether on their person, in carry-on baggage, or in checked baggage.
“If airport staff observe that a customer is in possession of a Samsung Galaxy Note7 device prior to boarding an aircraft, that customer will be denied boarding unless they can make arrangements for the device to be taken home or left with a family member.”
The ban was brought into effect by the airline on Saturday (15th October), which prohibits all Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices on board their flights.
Virgin Atlantic warn that any passengers found to be in possession of the smartphone could be subject to criminal prosecution: “Customers travelling to, from or within the US, who are found to be violating the ban may be subject to criminal prosecution in addition to fines by the U.S Department of Transportation.”
The device has now been discontinued by Samsung.


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‘Locally Grown’ Label Changes Consumer Perceptions
Researchers from Cornell University found that consumer perception of produce was influenced by having a label that identified it as locally grown. In a blind taste test of broccoli, consumers rated California broccoli higher than local broccoli on taste and appearance. However, when the produce was labeled as locally grown, consumers ranked its flavor higher and indicated their willingness to pay more for it. The study results could have implications for efforts to develop an East Coast broccoli industry using varieties with an appearance different from the standard California broccoli. Researchers say the study results could also influence efforts to market other local produce.


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More than fifty street vendors and advocates rallied to protest against Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance (HYHK) and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) over their displacement out of Bella Abzug Park.
The vendors allege that NYC Parks and HYHK have used tactics such as placing tree pits in locations where the vendors operate in an effort to displace them. Vendors who attempt to return to their space have been receiving tickets every day from NYC Parks.
“Since 2019, the local business improvement district, Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, has been placing trees where the vendors operate. Every now and then, they come back and add more trees in a move that is very intentional to displace the vendors and push them out of the location and out of business, which has happened to most of the carts that used to work and operate on this block,” said Mohamed Attia, the Managing Director at the Street Vendor Project.
The Street Vendor Project is part of the Urban Justice Center, a non-profit organization that provides advocacy and legal representation to marginalized communities in the city. Earlier this year, the NYPD and NYC Parks moved the vendors to make way for a new tree pit on the sidewalk where the vendors had been located.
Mohamed Awad has been a street vendor for 15 years and says he has operated in Bella Abzug Park since 2014. He says he has been issued a ticket worth $300 every day for the past two weeks and had to move his cart into a garage as there is no spot available for him to put it.
“We’re taking $300 summons every day because we’re not moving,” said Mohamed. “We refuse to move.”
“Why can they put us out of business so easily? What’s happening to us is wrong,” said Nazih Atia, one of the other street vendors.
The rally comes in the same week that HYHK announced that Paradis in the Park, the official park sub concessionaire, is partnering with longtime street vendor Tony Balbuena to expand Paradis’ food offerings at the park. Paradis opened to the public last year. In addition to the large kiosk in place, Paradis has added their own vendor carts around the park. They sell coffee and espressos, breakfast, lunch, snacks, wine, and beer.
“Street vending in the city is tough. Paradis has the contract and the vending spots. I have the cart and the workers and the experience. It’s a match made in heaven.” said Balbuena.
HYHK responded to the protestors’ claims, saying that the trees were not intentionally planted to displace street vendors. They said the trees are related to the Hudson Blvd East Shared Street Project, which has been planned for years. HYHK also dispelled the notion that they are displacing vendors and say they have added vendors to the park, hiring eight immigrant vendors with plans to expand. “No vendors have been displaced from the park,” said a spokesperson for HYHK.
In March 2021, a similar protest was held at Hudson Yards when street vendors claimed they were being “landscaped out” of the development by Related Properties.
The rally concluded with the street vendors and advocates marching around Hudson Yards chanting: “Hudson Yards — shame on you!” and “Parks Department— shame on you!”


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Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith added plant-based dishes to her family’s Thanksgiving celebration this year thanks to her favorite rapper “Grey.” Last week, Pinkett-Smith shared a video of Grey rapping about a vegan Thanksgiving with her 4.9 million followers on Instagram. “We’ll be serving some of that Thanksgiving #PlantBasedDrip[pin] this year,” Pinkett-Smith captioned the video. Grey founded vegan clothing brand Plant Based Drippin after his first vegan Thanksgiving video, released in 2016, garnered more than 2.5 million views. The rapper has released a new Thanksgiving video every year, and his 2017 rendition (the one shared by Pinkett-Smith) features special guest, vegan chef Nikki Ford—who is expecting a child with Grey and prepared the couple’s vegan Thanksgiving this year.
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The bidding of Paloma Faith’s dress in aid of Help Refugees has ended and sold for a total of £2,500.00. All money raised has gone directly to the charity to help fund their cause.
We asked various students of the University of Essex about their top style items for the colder months on campus. Here is what they said:
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On November 22nd Paloma Faith took part in a gig in Kentish Town, London, in aid of “Help Refugees”. The lineup for the night included; Peace, The Stone Flowers and Kate Tempest as well as other up and coming acts.
As if the Brit award winner couldn’t have done enough for “Help Refugees” , during her set she announced the sale of one of her bespoke gowns auctioning at midday the following day, November 23rd to raise more money for the cause. The dress was worn by the star for Lovebox festival 2010 and is made of green velvet and peacock feathers.
One of the most overlooked aspects of fashion is language. The evolution of the English language has created an entirely new way for us to communicate. (Which we can’t deny, is very important to us ladies!). Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter – that we all love – have aided the evolution of language and allow for a separate social universe with a whole new way of speaking. Of course, like everything else, this affects fashion!
Of course it isn’t just modern words that we’ve brought into fashion. The creation of neologisms (new words) for fashion has been going on for centuries.
Here’s a bit of background: the renaissance period was renowned for coining new terms for fashion. Ever wondered where the words ‘beret’ and ‘flat cap’ came from? Ladies, I present to you the renaissance. We all love a good pair of high heels, but did you know the original name for heels was ‘chopines’? As you can see, English Language has a huge impact on the way we interpret fashion today.
Alexander McQueen was a revolutionary fashion designer who captured the minds of many both famous and ordinary people. Since his passing in 2010 there have been many tributes to him including the Savage Beauty exhibition featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and at London’s V&A museum as well as various celebrities celebrating his life such as Lady Gaga and Bjork. The latest tribute to the late genius is James Phillips masterpiece of a play entitled “McQueen” at Theatre Royal Haymarket..
Hungarian freelance photographer, Norbert Baska’s, attempt to raise awareness to the migrant issues in Europe-failed to receive the response he had hoped for.
Norbert Baska’s shoot “Der Migrant” was believed to have been produced in order to raise awareness and help the current refugee and migrant situation. The photographs were taken at a location on the border of Hungary and Croatia due to the intense migrant issues in that particular area. The 13 images went live on Baska’s website on October 6th and very quickly sparked up a rage across social media.


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Along with Haswell-E comes Intel's X99 chipset and DDR4 memory
Supposing the latest rumor regarding Intel's Haswell-E processor family comes true, you'll have all summer to save up to build a system around a next-generation platform. A leaked document points to September 14, 2014 as the day Intel plans to launch Haswell-E to retail, which could coincide with an announcement at Intel's upcoming IDF 14 in San Francisco -- this year's IDF runs September 9-11.
Biostar wants gamers and Bitcoin miners to take notice of its new TB85 motherboard. This slice of silicon supports up to Intel's 4th Generation Core i7 processor line in the 1150 package and has six PCI-E slots, though all but one are of the PCI-E x1 variety. Nevertheless, if you want to load up this board with six graphics cards for a dedicated (and value oriented) mining machine, the option is there.
Forget any talk of the post-PC era. If PCs were dead, companies like EVGA wouldn't be churning out beastly power supplies. Instead, EVGA just announced the immediate availability of its SuperNOVA 1200 P2 PSU, which comes hot on the heels of the company's recently introduced SuperNOVA 1600 G2 PSU. The 1200W model still offers a ton of wattage, plus other tantalizing features at a more friendly price point than its bigger brethren.
If you're not rocking a solid state drive in your system, there's a good chance the cost of entry is what's preventing an upgrade. Even after the various price drops in the past year or so -- SSDs are easily found for less than $0.50 per gigabyte these days -- they're still relatively expensive next to mechanical hard drives. Well, guess what? Word on the web is that SSD makers are preparing an aggressive price war.
Future APUs will feature a "dramatic" improvement in energy efficiency
According to AMD, there are 3 billion PCs and 30 million computer servers that use more than 2.5 percent of all energy consumed. With that in mind, AMD today went public with a goal to deliver a 25x improvement in the energy efficiency of its Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) by 2020. If AMD is able to reach its goal, it would represent a significant improvement over the 10x gain in energy efficiency it achieved during the past 6 years.
If it's a mid-tower enclosure you're after, your options just grew by two. That's because Lian Li this week announced the release of its PC-B16 and PC-A61, both of which are mid-tower cases sporting brushed aluminum, modular 5.25-inch drive cages, and removable hard drive bays. Both also offer plenty of elbow room -- 59.7L for the PC-B16 and 57.5L for the PC-A61 -- with the former putting additional focus on keeping things quiet.
Motherboard built specifically for overclocking doesn't disappoint at Computex 2014
There's no mistaking Gigabyte's Z97X-SOC Force LN2 motherboard for a standard mobo. That slice of silicon is built for the extreme overclocking circuit, which is why there aren't any CPU fan mounting holes -- it's all about liquid nitrogen. Case in point, Gigabyte's Z97X-SOC Force LN2 broke multiple world records at Computex 2014, which includes the highest DDR3 memory frequency every achieved -- 4.56GHz, up from the previous record of 4.4GHz.
Just 100,000 motherboard shipments stand between leader Asus versus Gigabyte in race for first place
It might be a photo finish at the end of the year to determine which top-tier motherboard vendor comes in first. As it stands, only 100,000 motherboard shipments separate Asus and Gigabyte, the big guns in the mobo shootout. For now, Asus can enjoy pole position with 10.4 million motherboard shipments -- just enough to keep Gigabyte at an arm's length with 10.3 million shipments.
Razer's cutting it up at E3 with plenty of product announcements
You would expect a gaming peripheral maker like Razer to be hyper active during this time of year, and you'd be right. Razer announced a handful of new products during E3, including a new PC case design licensing program and the Nabu Smart Band, which is now shipping to developers. Maximum PC Online Editor Jimmy Thang met up with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan to talk about these products and more.
The first of several drives to boast "Made in the USA"
Edge memory is feeling patriotic these days. Never heard of them? According to the company's About Us page, Edge Memory's roots date back to 1986 when a 14-year-old took $2,500 that he saved from his paper route and began buying and selling computer parts in the Dallas Morning News. Now a full fledged business, Edge Memory's newest product is the Revolution, a 7mm solid state drive proudly made in the U.S.


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A break-in at a well-established Lincoln Park pet store has shaken management there.
Cameron Harris is the manager of Feed Rite Pet Supply, which has been at 2979 Fort St., for more than 70 years.
According to Harris, a man who looked to be in his 50s, with a shaved head, took a crowbar to the establishment’s back door at about 4:30 a.m. May 4 and forced his way inside the pet store.
He was captured on newly installed surveillance cameras once inside the building.
The man appears to be alone and went straight to the back of the store to the safe that was sitting next to a fax machine.
“It is disheartening that in trying times like these a person would target a small mom and pop shop like ours,” a statement from the store said on social media.
Harris echoed those sentiments, saying the break-in has been an “emotional and financial hit” to the family-owned business.
“We haven’t had any problems,” Harris said. “We support our community and they support us. I know all of the customers by name, their dog’s names and their kids’ names.”
The culprit spent about three minutes in the store before leaving.
He did not harm any of the pets inside.
Harris believes the culprit, who was wearing an oversized hoodie, was after the safe and knew where it was located.
He did not want to specify how much money was inside the safe, but said it was in the thousands.
Other valuable items were stolen, as well, according to the post on social media.
The man appeared to be driving a red Dodge Caravan, which also was captured on a surveillance camera.
Harris takes the crime personally due to the fact that Feed Rite has been in the same location serving its regular customers, their children and now grandchildren, for decades.
As word of the crime circulated throughout the city, customers reached out to the owners and management to check on the employees, store and animals.
“That doesn’t surprise me,” Harris said. “We help the community out and we have a good relationship with them.”
The past year or so has been hard for Feed Rite and many other businesses trying to stay afloat during this economic downfall.
He said no one knows the financial standing of a business, and the money stored in an establishment’s safe could be the difference between that operation staying open or collapsing.
While he said that is not the case for the pet store, their cash flow is important — even if it’s $20.
Lincoln Park police confirmed that they have a police report from the burglary and are investigating the case.
A 911 emergency call came to the Brownstown Township Police Department from a 12-year-old girl saying her father assaulted her by choking her.
A string of unfortunate circumstances led to a tragic ending May 1 for a family now grieving the loss of their 14-year-old family dog, Rusty.
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On 17 January 2019, the 22nd Meeting of ASEAN Tourism Ministers was successfully convened in Ha Long, Viet Nam in conjunction with the 38th ASEAN Tourism Forum. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam, and co-chaired by H.E Dato Ali Apong, Minister of Primary Resources and Tourism of Brunei Darussalam and attended by ASEAN tourism ministers, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN Secretariat, secretaries general of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), ASEAN-Japan Centre and ASEAN-Korea Centre and representatives of international tourism organizations, including UNWTO, PATA, ASEANTA and ATRA. H.E. Mr. Chen Dehai, Secretary-General of ACC was present and addressed the meeting.
The Meeting discussed on key agendas including the outcomes of the 33rd ASEAN Summit held in Singapore on 13 November 2018, reports by ASEAN National Tourism Organizations and the joint press communiqué. Relevant issues were also consulted with international and regional tourism organizations. A series of important topics, such as marketing ASEAN as one single destination, attracting tourism investment, enhancing capabilities of tourism professionals, increasing community and private sector participation, improving travel facilitation and connectivity, were discussed at the Meeting.
During the Meeting, Secretary-General of ACC H.E Mr. Chen Dehai delivered a speech highly commending the fruitful results of ASEAN-China relations and the achievements of tourism cooperation. He stated that, tourism had become one of the highlight areas of ASEAN-China cooperation in recent years. The tourists travelling between ASEAN and China were enjoying more and more convenience. Increased international flights, improved visa facilitation, and quality tourist service were among the latest developments. At present, over 3800 flights per week were flying between ASEAN and China. In 2018, the number of two-way visits between ASEAN and China was expected to be over 55 million, setting a new record with an increase of around 10% compared with previous year. China is ASEAN’s largest source of tourists whereas ASEAN remains one of the most popular destinations for Chinese tourists. Asia, especially East Asia is becoming the global tourism centre. He strongly believed that the future of tourism cooperation between ASEAN and China would be brighter than ever before. ACC would continue to play its role and join efforts with all ASEAN National Tourism Organizations and relevant partners to make greater contributions to the sustainable development of ASEAN tourism industry.
The ASEAN tourism ministers expressed appreciation and underscored the active role of ACC and its achievements since its inception, which greatly contributed to the ASEAN tourism development and further promoted the people-to-people exchanges and connectivity, and helped build a sustainable tourism community of shared future.
On 18 January 2019, the 18th Meeting of ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan and the ROK) Tourism Ministers was held. H. E. Mr. Xiong Bo, the Chinese Ambassador to Viet Nam attended the meeting and spoke highly of the current tourism exchanges and cooperation between ASEAN and China. ACC Secretary-General Mr. Chen Dehai also participated in the meeting upon invitation and exchanged views with the ministers and representatives on furthering tourism cooperation between ASEAN and China.
During ATF, Secretary-General Chen Dehai had extensive exchanges with the tourism ministers of ASEAN Member States including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand on strengthening and deepening tourism cooperation. The tourism ministers were paying high attentions to the outbound Chinese tourists market, and hoped to map out new flagship tourism projects with ACC in future.
On the occasion of ATF, Secretary-General Chen also attended two tourism promotional activities, Brunei Night and the Philippines Late Night Function, where wonderful cultural and contemporary performances, authentic food and the latest tourism products of the two countries were showcased.


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Movie stars confirmed for the Star Trek game voice cast
Namco Bandai has confirmed that Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto will be lending their voices to the video game.
The rest of the Enterprises bridge crew will be voiced by their cinematic stars including Simon Pegg as Scotty, John Cho as Sulu, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Karl Urban as Doc McCoy and Zoe Saldana as Uhuru.
The game is being co-written by God Of War writer Marian Krawczyk and the film's writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzmann.
The Star Trek video game is in development at Digital Extremes for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and is due for release some time in 2013.
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